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COVID -19, Update, Friday 12th June
Africa
98 days for first 100,000 cases
18 days for next 100,000 cases
Community transmission in more than half of Africa’s 54 countries
Spreading to rural areas
Deaths, 5,635
50% of workers are daily wage earners
WHO
3m deaths if there is sustained community transmission
Steady increase until a vaccine is developed
Hotspot, South Africa, Algeria, Cameroon
Require very strong public health measures
(Matshidiso Moeti, WHO’s Africa regional director)
Senegal
People mingling freely
Community transmission
Health services full
South Africa
Dr Mary-Ann Davies of Western Cape Department of Health
3.5 million adults receiving public sector health care
12,987 COVID-19 cases have diagnosed
435 people who have died
Men, 40% more likely to die of COVID-19 than women (hazard ratio 1.40)
Risk of death increased in each age band over the age of 40.
Well uncontrolled diabetes HR 4.65
Uncontrolled diabetes HR 13.02
Hypertension, HR 1.46
Chronic kidney disease, HR 2.02
Previous history of tuberculosis, HR 1.41
Active tuberculosis, HR 2.58
HIV, HR 2.75
Viral suppression made no difference to the risk of death
Almost all the people with HIV who died had other comorbidities apart from HIV
About half of them were diabetic
About half were hypertensive
‘We’re quite reassured that this number is not enormous, but people with HIV need to be on the list of risk groups’
US
Anthony Fauci
Concern about recent mass protests
Spread virus because of a lack of social distancing
Members of the Washington, DC National Guard tested positive, ‘disturbing’
Boston
Offers COVID-19 testing to protesters
Marty Walsh reaching out to organisers of the demonstrations
Mobile pop-up testing site in a Boston for symptomatic and asymptomatic
US National Institutes of Health and Moderna vaccine
Phase 1, 45 volunteers
Phase 2, 300 younger adults
Phase 3, clinical trials in July, 30,000 participants
UK
Matt Hancock, people should not attend large demonstrations for public health reasons
This is a virus that thrives on social contact
Shops reopening from Monday
Ireland
Prison Service submits best practice paper to WHO after no inmate tests Covid-19 positive
Russia
WHO
Russia’s official coronavirus death rate ‘difficult to understand’
6,532 deaths, many times lower than other countries with serious outbreaks
European Commission
Russia and China have mounted ‘targeted influence operations and disinformation campaigns in the EU, its neighbourhood and globally’
Dagestan
Health minister, number of infections
4 times higher than reported
Many deaths recorded as CAP
29 verses 657
Regional leaders wanted to look in control
India
Cases, + a record of 9,996 new cases = 286,579
Mumbai, New Delhi and Chennai
Deaths + 357 = 8,102 deaths.
Most Indian states have lifted lockdown restrictions
Train services partially restored
Shops and manufacturing reopened
Subways, hotels and schools remain shuttered nationwide.
South Korea
45 new cases per day
Mostly in the Seoul metropolitan area
Health authorities have struggled to trace transmissions.
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